![]() ![]() Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. ![]() It was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1948. ![]() A children's surrealist utopian novel about a man who discovers a hidden, diamond-mining society after crash landing his hot air balloon on the island of Krakatoa. Signed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper. In the original dustwrapper with the John Newbery Medal seal fixed to the upper panel, which is a little toned with a few tiny nicks to the spine tips and hinges. This led him to other picture books, and he began purchasing illustrations from those books. Mallett took his first course in children’s literature, he read The Twenty-One Balloons and became enchanted with Pène du Bois’s pencil illustrations for the book. ![]() The contents are clean and bright throughout. 64 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois (1947). White, developed into successful fantasists. Two renowned New Yorker writers, James Thurber and E.B. nothing more uproariously delightful than The Twenty-one Balloons (1947), merging some of the appeals of Jules Verne with those of Samuel Butler’s Erewhon and adding a sly humour all his own. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the bottom corners with the slightest of bumps. The Twenty-One Balloons (Puffin Modern Classics) by William Pene du Bois 3.9 (57) Paperback (Reissue) 7.99 Paperback 7.99 eBook 7. In children’s literature: Contemporary times. Illustrated throughout with lovely, whimsical black and white drawings by Pène du Bois. Original decorated paper covered boards a with red cloth spine and black titles to the upper board and spine. ![]()
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